Many anthologies of the Buddha's teachings have appeared in English, but
this is the first to be organized around the set of teachings that the Buddha
himself said formed the heart of his message: the Wings to Awakening (bodhi-
pakkhiya-dhamma). The material is arranged in three parts, preceded by a
long Introduction. The Introduction tries to define the concept of Awakening
so as to give a clear sense of where the Wings to Awakening are headed. It
does this by discussing the Buddha's accounts of his own Awakening, with
special focus on the way in which the principle of skillful kamma (in Sanskrit,
karma) formed both the "how" and the "what" of that Awakening: The
Buddha was able to reach Awakening only by developing skillful kamma
this is the "how"; his understanding of the process of developing skillful
kamma is what sparked the insights that constituted Awakening this is the
"what."

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